Dr. Schraga Schwartz and his group are revealing in unprecedented detail a mechanism for controlling gene activity 20.11.2017   (l-r) Drs. Ronit Nir, Modi Safra, Aldema Sas-Chen and Schraga Schwartz are revealing new means of regulating the genes DNA is sometimes...

How does the brain impose boundaries on free recollection? 16.11.2017 Category selective visual responses recorded intracranially in patients undergoing epilepsy monitoring. Electrodes located in these brain region show selective responses to faces. When the pa Try to...

A new method for fabricating nanostructured metals may lead to smaller electronic devices 30.10.2017 Nanoallotropes of gold viewed with transmission electron microscopy (top) and electron tomography (bottom) Nature supplies us with dramatic lessons on the importance...

A first-ever study of enzyme efficiency inside living cells reveals a surprising constraint on their activities 24.10.2017 Enzyme activity in a cell: Enzymes are red, the final product, which is fully converted within several minutes, is blue (see movie below) Some...

Weizmann Institute scientists help confirm and analyze the star merger 16.10.2017 This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser An international...

New research shows these immune cells are also crucial to maintaining harmony, including that of heat-producing fat cells 28.09.2017 Characterization of macrophages (green) and axons (red) in brown adipose tissue (BAT) using two-photon fluorescence microscopy imaging...

Oxygen starvation could toughen up immune T cells for cancer immunotherapy 18.09.2017 Cancerous tumor tissue under a microscope: T cells grown under low oxygen conditions (green) and regular T cells (purple) show similar distribution patterns vis-à-vis blood vessels...

In Dr. Binghai Yan’s research, novel materials pave the way to new discoveries in physics 04.09.2017 Dr. Binghai Yan uses simulations and math to predict how new materials can behave Dr. Binghai Yan, who recently joined the Condensed Matter Physics Department of the...

A new model for the formation of crucial membrane structures revises the picture of cell dynamics 28.08.2017 Fluorescently labeled actin in a cell exhibiting circular ruffled membrane structures The cell membrane can be a busy place; its function in letting things in...

Self-assembling protein complexes based on a single mutation could provide scaffolding for nanostructures 23.08.2017 Yeast cells producing a bacterial symmetric protein complex with eight units. When it is not mutated (left), the complex diffuses freely inside the...